This Week In Mobile
Subsidization and Saturation – stratēchery by Ben Thompson
Subsidization and Saturation – stratēchery by Ben Thompson Ben Thompson reacts to AT&T CEO’s remarks about subsidies for smartphones. He covers a number of good points, including both the duplicitous nature of the original comments and some of their accuracy. One thing he doesn’t mention, however, is Apple’s unique advantage in usage. As carriers stop …
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Updated US Smartphone Saturation Forecast
Updated US Smartphone Saturation Forecast Horace Dediu updates his charts on US smartphone saturation. For the most part, things are continuing on their current pace. Android seems to continue to be roughly flat while Apple continues to match the logistic function nearly 1-1. And of course the march to all phones becoming smartphones continues to …
Promotion in the App Store – stratēchery by Ben Thompson
Promotion in the App Store – stratēchery by Ben Thompson Ben Thompson on App Store promotion and the tools at a platform owner’s disposal for attracting great apps. Apple is pretty masterful at it and they also have a huge firehose of attention. Our apps have been featured over 2 dozen times by Apple and …
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ongoing by Tim Bray · Surveillance and the Media
ongoing by Tim Bray · Surveillance and the Media Tim Bray weighs in on the whole NSA surveillance brouhaha. Of course these overwhelming and intrusive levels of surveillance are costing American companies – there are always hidden costs to government intervention. The internet as a whole – but US internet companies in particular – will …
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Snooperscope promises to add night vision to your Android device
Snooperscope promises to add night vision to your Android device An add-on for a smartphone or tablet that promises to bring night vision to your Android devices. Similar to a security camera, the module uses infrared light to allow you to see in very low light conditions. Interesting application of tech but what problem does …
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Chrome apps could start coming to Android and iOS as early as next month
Chrome apps could start coming to Android and iOS as early as next month Google continues to execute on its horizontal services play. Many in the tech press love to put Android vs iOS, but android was Google’s defense against being locked out of mobile platforms. Having largely succeeded at that defense, it makes complete …
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iBeacons Used To Deliver Location-Based Access To iOS Newsstand Publications | TechCrunch
iBeacons Used To Deliver Location-Based Access To iOS Newsstand Publications | TechCrunch We can’t say enough about iBeacons and the potential applications. Here’s a great example where a magazine app platform is using them to highlight content in a physical newsstand style – using locations to prompt users about relevant content. 2014 will be an …
Who buys the iPhone 5C?
Who buys the iPhone 5C? Ben Evans takes a look at Facebook’s advertising data to find two trends about the iPhone 5c and 5s: the 5s is selling much better (which is expected and mostly known) and the 5c skews higher amongst women. The important question on the 5s outselling the 5c is more about …
